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Traditionally companies invest into software that has been proven to meet their needs and has a clear ROI. This model falls apart when disruptive technology such as Big Data comes around. Most CIOs have started to hear about Big Data and based on their position on the spectrum of conservative to progressive they have either started to think about investing or have already started investing. The challenge these CIOs face is not so much whether they should invest into Big Data or not but what they should do with it. Large companies have complex landscapes that serve multiple LOBs and all these LOBs have their own ideas about what they want to get out of Big Data. Most of these LOB executives are even more excited about the potential of Big Data but are less informed about the upstream technical impact and the change of mindset that IT will have to go through to embrace it. But, these LOBs do have a stronger lever - money to spend if they see that technology can help them accomplish somet...

PRESS RELEASE April 30, 2013, 2:30 p.m. ET Eric Vollmecke of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium reports  the proliferation of geospatial information will pose problems for disaster  responders and describes a project designed to move critical data more  efficiently using an open cloud-based infrastructure      WASHINGTON, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Managing and disseminating the rapidly increasing amount of geospatial data will be a huge challenge for governments and civilians responding to the world's next big disaster, Eric Vollmecke of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) told 350 global leaders at the NATO Network Enabled Capability conference held in Lisbon, Portugal, April 23-25. "From an operational perspective, there is an insatiable appetite for overhead imagery to build situational awareness. Currently, platforms keep growing to collect and disseminate the necessary information. This informatio...

Next week I will be participating in the inaugural session of What’s Next in IT Debate Series , a  new program of authentic debates and conversations on key technology topics . Sponsored by IBM, The Debate Series is an ongoing series of social video debates, held on Spreecast.com (a browser based social video site much like Google hangouts). The first What’s Next in IT debate will be a stimulating discussion on just when and why infrastructure really matters when it comes to building and managing clouds.   My good friend David Linthicum will be moderating this first verbal battle. Leading technology publications frequently name David among the top 10 enterprise technologists in the world. He is a true thought leader in the industry, and an expert in complex distributed systems, including cloud computing, data integration, service oriented architecture (SOA), and big data systems. As the author of over 13 books on computing with over 3,000 published articles, as well as radio and TV a...

This week I will have the honor of attending the  2013 NNEC Conference    at the Corinthia Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal. The NNEC conference is an annual event which has been sponsored by  HQ Supreme Allied Command Transformation  (HQ SACT) since 2004. The conference is a major driver to promote NNEC within NATO, the nations, industry and other stakeholders in the civilian and military environment. This annual conference draws international attention as seen during the 2012 event held in Vienna, Austria with registration from more than 35 countries and 415 attendees. During this year’s event Major General Eric Vollmecke from the  Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium  (NCOIC) will be presenting information on its Geospatial Community Cloud (GCC) Demonstration. Highlighted in a recent  Government Computer News  article, the project supports a concept proposed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to demonstrate the interoperability and movement of data in an open-cloud-b...

Join us on April 16, 2013 at 1 PM EDT to remove the mystery surrounding Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for Federal Government https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8966264786104832512 The PaaS market is plagued with confusion, and agencies are slow to adopt technologies that they do not fully understand. With the high costs of software development, the Government stands to save billions of dollars by adopting PaaS and other cloud technologies. The Federal CIO’s office suggests that Shared Platforms will improve efficiencies by building once and using many times – but what does that mean to Federal buyers? This FREE event will help Federal Government better understand PaaS to make better decisions and facilitate adoption. Please join distinguished panelists (from NIST, GSA, NASA, Cisco, NJVC and Dell) as we attempt to demystify the topic of Platform as a Service (PaaS) for Government. The format will be one hour with 5 minutes presentations by each of five panelists, followed by dyn...

Jake Porway who was a data scientist at the New York Times R&D labs has a great perspective on why multi-disciplinary teams are important to avoid bias and bring in different perspective in data analysis. He discusses a story where data gathered by Über in Oakland suggested that prostitution arrests increased in Oakland on Wednesdays but increased arrests necessarily didn't imply increased crime. He also outlines the data analysis done by Grameen Foundation where the analysis of Ugandan farm workers could result into the farmers being "good" or "bad" depending on which perspective you would consider. This story validates one more attribute of my point of view regarding data scientists - data scientists should be design thinkers . Working in a multi-disciplinary team to let people champion their perspective is one of the core tenants of design thinking. One of the viewpoints of Jake that I don't agree with: "Any data scientist worth their salary wil...

Join us on Wed, Apr 17, 2013 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT to explore how to use cloud brokerage to move efficiently and securely to the cloud. More and more business and governmental agencies are migrating to the cloud but the reality is that move can often be slow, painful, and complicated.  Even expert system integrators are struggling to stay relevant and help their customers use cloud in a practical way. Challenges that siphon away time and money and introduce risk and governance issues include: - Designing and matching different applications to the best cloud offering - Learning to provision and integrate using phone book-sized cloud API guides - Developing new purchasing processes and verifying complex bills from multiple cloud providers - Combating cloud sprawl and Shadow IT - Not having real-time visibility, predictability, and governance of cloud cost, SLAs, and utilization Join our guests Forrester Research Principal Analyst Stefan Ried, Ph.D., and Gravitant custo...